Arts@LC 2025 Spring Newsletter

We are so pleased to celebrate another eventful semester of the Arts at Lewis & Clark! Arts@LC is dedicated to nurturing the vibrant arts curriculum and programming that Lewis & Clark offers, and this newsletter will give you an overview of some of the incredible things we’ve been up to this semester. We are happy to report that four years into the Arts@LC initiative, more arts-interested students are choosing Lewis & Clark because of our work to connect and amplify the incredible artistic community represented by our faculty, students, and staff. The spring of 2025 has been marked by an explosion of creative expression, from departmental performances, exhibits and readings to co-curricular presentations at the Festival of Scholars and Artists (FOSA), Watzek First Fridays, and more.

We were thrilled to host Tiffany Mills Dance Company from New York City for a residency which included two sold-out performances of a West coast premiere featuring ten Lewis & Clark students, and three full-to-capacity workshops for LC students and community members.The music department offered more than 30 performances this semester alone, including having the Cappella Nova choir perform at the Reser Center for the Performing Arts with professional groups Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova Northwest in a sold-out performance. The EAR Forest continues to be an integral interdisciplinary element of the college’s programming and creative life, hosting Visiting Artist John Niekrasz and installations by students from multiple departments. And the Creative Writing program hosted multiple guest authors and fostered extraordinary student work.

We have been very engaged with our Arts Advocacy Council, a group including alumni, artists and other Lewis & Clark stakeholders invested in the mission of connecting and amplifying the arts at Lewis & Clark. In addition to hosting In a Landscape this past fall, the group has been working on supporting the arts as part of the Strategic Planning process, working to connect prospective high school students to our outstanding arts education opportunities, creating more connections to internships and professional development for current students and planning around initiatives relating to our partnerships with indigenous communities. We are so grateful to this group and look forward to sharing more of their work with you over the coming year.

Finally, we are looking toward next year with a lot of excitement. We will be hosting In a Landscape again on our campus in the fall, sharing their unique site-specific musical encounter with our community. We will also be working with a faculty steering committee to work on more interdisciplinary partnerships, as well as continuing our ongoing work with the Platteau and other student groups.

We hope to see you at the next arts event soon!

 

Sincerely,

Rebecca Lingafelter,
Associate Professor of Theatre, Co-Director of Arts@LC

Katherine FitzGibbon,
Professor of Music, Co-Director of Arts@LC

Spring 2025 Arts@LC Newsletter